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SÈVRES PORCELAIN FACTORY

Seau à bouteille (part of the Essex service)

1764-70

RCIN 58388

Soft-paste Sèvres porcelain wine bottle coolers. Bleu céleste ground and gilded decoration. Moulded white rim edged with gold and a gilded foot ring. The gilded frames of the two reserves are composed of a foliate moulding along the top and of a laurel trail along the sides and bottom; the laurel trail, attached at the top by a stud, extends in a loop below each foliate handle. Threaded through the loop and seemingly passing behind the handles are crossed bay-leaf branches.

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